Christie Out

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dropped out of the race yesterday, just days after saying it was “crazy” to suggest that he might drop out. And in his remarks, he demonstrated why people like him are hurting the Republican Party and the populist conservative cause.

Christie preened with the idea that the main reason he ran was because Donald Trump must be stopped at all costs, and he was the only guy willing to take him on.

Really? No one else is trying to stop Donald Trump?

The most powerful people in America are trying to stop him! The donor wing of the Republican Party is trying to stop him.

They are trying to bankrupt him. They are trying to put him in jail. They are trying to ruin him and his family. And Chris Christie thinks he was needed because no one else was trying to stop Trump?

Christie said that Trump is full of himself. Well, I think Christie is full of something, too.

Let’s just say that somehow Christie managed to stop the nomination of Donald Trump. That could very well guarantee Joe Biden’s reelection to a second term.

While the pundits are talking about how the GOP needs to attract suburban women, no one talks about how the GOP must keep and expand the working-class, values voter base of the party.

It’s hard to imagine values voters supporting Biden. But the blue-collar, working-class voters who joined the GOP in recent years by the millions did so because of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump smashed the “Blue Wall” in 2016 by winning Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, doing what no other Republican since Ronald Reagan was able to do. He did it with blue-collar, working-class voters who will never vote for a Bush/Romney establishment candidate.

Chris Christie is the party’s past. His “moment” came and went when he took a pass on challenging Barack Obama in 2012. And I find it disturbing that a significant percentage of New Hampshire voters are still backing him 12 years later.

By the way, the latest Rasmussen poll finds Donald Trump beating Joe Biden 49% to 41%. Ron DeSantis essentially ties Biden 42% to 41%. But Nikki Haley loses to Biden 36% to 38%.